ארץ שלום | Land of peace | أرض السلا. Challenge - A Magazine covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. En.daam.org.il. Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc. Sami Awad, on Auschwitz, fear, and the meaning of nonviolence. Recommended Readings | Ramallah, Palestine | BCA - Study Abroad. The BCA Study Abroad resident director, presenters and Birzeit University faculty members will assign readings (books, journals, newspaper articles) throughout the program as background reading and for particular discussion topics and courses. All participants are expected to read and be intimately familiar with two pre-departure readings (also required for the Signature Seminar: Social Justice, Women's Rights and Refugees): Salim Tamari’s Mountain Against the Sea The following are selected recommended readings, some of which may also be assigned to students during the Seminar. 1.
Ramallah, Palestine | BCA - Study Abroad. Alternate-Slideshow-university Alternate-Slideshow-studentLife Alternate-Slideshow-programs Alternate-Slideshow-excursions Alternate-Slideshow-director Alternate-Slideshow-courses. Gush Shalom - Israeli peace bloc. (1) Real Democracy نريد ديمقراطية حقيقة דמוקרטיה אמיתית An Electoral Rebellion: Israelis Are Giving Their Votes to Palestinians. With Israel’s election only weeks away, a rather remarkable online initiative has begun: Israelis are offering to give their votes to Palestinians occupied by Israel in the West Bank. The idea behind this initiative is simple: Palestinians subjected to a military system of justice in the Occupied Territories, and wholly under Israel’s control, have no democratic say in the process that binds them.
And so Israelis, to protest the occupation and this undemocratic dynamic, are offering to give their vote to a Palestinian and cast a ballot as their matched counterpart in the West Bank desires. The Facebook site housing this initiative, Real Democracy, already has countless offers from Israelis willing to give up their votes as well as matches with Palestinians, such as the following: This initiative, while modest, is more than symbolic, as real votes will be cast in Israel’s elections on January 22 as a result. Will it skew the election’s results? Israelis give their votes to Palestinians in Facebook campaign. In an act of protest one can only find in the world of social media, activists open a Facebook page where Israelis are urged to ‘hand over’ their voting rights to Palestinians.
Every once in a while, social media shows you what an amazing tool it can be. On December 26, 2012, a new Facebook page was created, called “Real Democracy.” The basic idea behind it is that Israelis “give up” their vote in the upcoming elections to any of the millions of Palestinians under Israeli rule who have no right to vote. It’s all done on Facebook. The Israeli posts a status saying he/she’s willing to do it, the Palestinian tells him/her who to vote for. The group behind the page consists of Israeli, Palestinian and international activists. Here are some examples of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation from the Facebook page from the last few days: I spoke with the Israeli and Palestinian in the first dialogue above: